Generic functionASSOCIATION-LIST

Package:

GODB

Syntax:

association-listgo-handle accession
=> list-of-association-objects

Arguments and Values:

go-handle---an object of type go-handle

accession---a string

Description:

The generic function association-list is used to find a term's associations. It takes two parameters, go-handle,
to preserve the session, and accession, to identify the term whose associations are to be found.
It returns a list of objects of type ASSOCIATION.

Affected By:

Examples:

Exceptional Situations:

None.

See Also:

None.

Notes:

The function first checks if the associations are already in the hash table. If they are not,
they are then added. Otherwise, it creates objects of type 'association' and then indexes them in the hashes
on both accession and gene-product-id.